The Senate confirmed Mike Pompeo, President Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of state, by a vote of 57-42 on Thursday.
Pompeo cleared a tumultuous confirmation process, with every Democrat on the Senate’s Foreign Relations Panel opposing his nomination. He was recommended favorably by the committee earlier this week only after Kentucky senator Rand Paul, one of Pompeo’s earliest detractors, flipped his vote at the very last minute.
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